But know that you will always have an ally in Isolte.” He was right.Įtan pulled my hand to his lips again. I have a kingdom of my own awaiting my return.” I don’t think these gentlemen want a foreign king here as they discuss matters of state with their very new queen. I turned to Etan, expecting him to follow. But of all the ways I’d imagined this day ending, none had led me to this, and I couldn’t wrap my mind around being in possession of a kingdom. And, as he had no heirs, that meant the crown went to me. I was, in the most bureaucratic sense, Jameson’s wife. There is much to discuss,” a holy man said. Many were shielding their faces from the sight of a dead body, and many more were speaking furtively, trying to understand how so much had happened in such a few moments. In an instant the holy men were beside me as the guards carefully escorted the courtiers from the Great Hall. Kissing my hand and then touching it to his temple, he whispered, “Your Majesty.”Ī tremble rose from my toes and went all the way to the ends of my hair. “Long live the queen.”Īnd I stood in silence as an entire room of nobles looked to me.īESIDE ME, ETAN WENT TO a knee. A holy man went over to him and placed a hand beneath his nose, feeling for a breath.
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